Ready to stop consuming for the rest of the year?

As of today, we have consumed all Earth can produce this year.

For the rest of this year we will be consuming from our future and the future of our children.

We are consuming 1.8 Earths every year.

We have been consuming more than Earth can produce since 1971…..54 straight years.

If you overspent your household budget for 54 straight years, would you still have a house?

This is the second hyperbaric chamber fire and death this year in the United States.

When you do hyperbaric chamber therapy you are crawling inside a pressurized tube of flammable oxygen that is being maintained by a person that is, more than likely, not an expert in electronics or fire safety.

There is a better option.

Contrast oxygen therapy is:

• Safer – No pressurized oxygen; no enclosed tube;

• Cleaner – No mold/bacteria build up inside a tube because there is no tube;

• Cheaper – Typically less than 10% of the cost of hyperbaric chamber therapy;

• Faster – Normally, to see results, your time investment is less than 20% of hyperbaric chamber therapy;

• Better – Studies show contrast oxygen results beat hyperbaric chamber results.

If you care about safety, cost, time and results, there is no reason to crawl inside a pressurized tube for performance enhancement, prevention or recovery.

Per a study of 10 years of data by NYU, sustainable products, at a 28% price premium, are growing twice as fast as their non-sustainable peers.

So, if charging more and growing faster is not part of your mandate as a leader, don’t become certified sustainable, as that will complicate things.  It would cause you to run the risk of making more money while also doing something good – clearly, a bad combination for any business leader!

Recently, select LA Fitness locations in Palm Beach, Florida, began promoting Gym for the Brain to new LA Fitness members in order to help them improve their overall fitness experience.  The goal is to convince the member to combine sessions at Gym for the Brain with their training at LA Fitness.

The promotion lists the following ways Gym for the Brain can help make your traditional exercise workout even better –

Improved Vo2max

Reduced Inflammation

Reduced Reaction Time

Improved Memory / Concentration

Reduced Recovery

Improved Heart Rate Variability

Improved Red Blood Cell Production

Improved Cellular Oxygen Utilization

Improved Speed of Processing

Reduced Toxins

If you want to maximize your exercise workout, consider combining Gym for the Brain modalities like this to your program.

Per this article, with attached study, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University joined forces to produce a study that looked at the effect of AI on your critical thinking ability.

Surprise, Surprise – AI makes you dumber and worse at your job.

In effect, the more you rely on AI, the more you disengage from critical thinking, the dumber you become, and the less valuable you will be.

People that use generative AI tools produce less original work with less diversity of thought, versus their peers who work without AI.

We already know AI is damaging to the environment and produces a lot of bad answers.

With this new study we see that it is going to be harder for you to see those bad answers, as your critical thinking will continue to deteriorate.

As you deteriorate, your dependence on AI will grow, and the quality and accuracy of your work will continue to slide.

But hey, at least you get there faster.

Since 1971 we have been consuming more than the Earth can produce each year.  

To make matters worse, our consumption has been increasing.

Last year, 2024, per the picture, we hit Earth Overshoot Day on July 25.

On that date we had consumed all the Earth could produce in 2024.  After July 25, we started consuming into future years.

We are currently consuming 1.8 Earths every year.  

We have been over-consuming for 54 years.

What do you think the date will be in 2025?  Will we do better or worse than 2024?

Give us your guess.